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Golden Gulag
Evaluates the economic and political forces--from global to local--that have contributed to the buildup of inmates in the California correctional system, revealing why this state …
Contesting Torture
This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.The …
Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, …
Inside the monkey house
We all did time, staff and prisoners. Each of us had a number; each of us wanted the finality of getting out that gate.When John Cuffe entered Mountjoy as a young prison officer in …
China's Death Penalty
By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time …
Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology
These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the …
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of global capitalism, one that is marked …
Prisoner Leaders
It offers a fresh approach to understanding the reality of the prison community, seeking out examples of prisoner leaders and their leadership qualities, uncovering new …
Capital Punishment
Presents arguments against capital punishment, examines the Supreme Court's reasons for supporting the death penalty, and discusses racism in the American justice system
Smart Prisons
This book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management, promote the reform of prison security, fair law enforcement, …
Criminal Justice and Regulation Revisited
This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and …
Fatal Shore
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was …